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NYCO Announces Next Season, at BAM & City Center, Consisting of “Powder Her Face,” “Turn of the Screw,” “Mosè in Egitto,” & “La Périchole”
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NYCO General Manager & Artistic Director George Steel
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On April 18, at the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, New York City Opera (NYCO) General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel, praised by Chairman of NYCO’s Board Chuck Wall for his “remarkable vision and leadership,” announced that, returning to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and to its original home, New York City Center, in a relationship “we have cemented,” said Steel, with both organizations, “for the next three seasons,” NYCO will present company premieres of Thomas Adès’ “Powder Her Face,” Gioachino Rossini’s “Mosè in Egitto” in its initial version, and Jacques Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” and a revival of Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw,” during its 2012-2013 season. While NYCO still maintains a warehouse of its earlier productions, some of which may reenter the repertory as is deemed appropriate, the emphasis for now will continue to be on new productions, such as next season’s and, Steel declares, “Every production promises fresh perspective and gripping theater.”
Adès and librettist Philip Hensher’s “Powder Her Face” (1995), at BAM on February 15, 17 matinee, 21 and 23, 2013, and replete with “tangos and other kinds of dance music,” “in full Kurt Weill mode,” will be directed by Jay Scheib and designed by Marsha Ginsberg (sets), Alba Clemente (costumes), Thomas Dunn (lighting), and Josh Higgason (projections). The opera concerns the scandalous Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, AKA the “Dirty Duchess,” and director Scheib refers to it as “a ‘Don Giovanni’ for the Monica Lewinsky generation … as dreamt by Jean Genet.” Adès himself will be at the Metropolitan Opera next season, conducting the Met’s first production of his “The Tempest,” opening on October 23.
In observance of the bicentennial of Britten’s birth, the new “Turn of the Screw” (1954), with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, will be at BAM on February 24 matinee, 26 and 28, and March 2, with direction by Sam Buntrock and designs by David Farley (sets and costumes) and David Weiner (lighting). Jayce Ogren, who conducted Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place” and Rufus Wainwright’s “Prima Donna” for NYCO, will lead “Turn of the Screw” as well.
Ogren will also pace Rossini and Andrea Leone Tottola’s “Mosè in Egitto,” marking the company’s first performances at City Center since the 1960s, next April 14 matinee, 16, 18 and 20, in a production directed and designed by Michael Counts, with costumes by Jessica Jahn and projections by Ada Whitney. The “Mosè” at City Center, where NYCO began in 1943, is thought to be the first in New York since 1836. Collegiate Chorale gave Rossini’s revised version for Paris, “Moïse et Pharaon,” in concert at Carnegie Hall last November 30.
NYCO, which has presented Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” “Orphée aux Enfers,” and “La Belle Hélène” in the past, adds favorite operetta “La Périchole” to its repertory, in Christopher Alden’s production, at City Center, next April 21 matinee, 23, 25, and 27.
NYCO will also hold its 13th annual VOX: Contemporary Opera Lab, in conjunction with OPERA America’s New Works Forum, at New York University’s Skirball Center on November 8, and give an abridged version of Korean composer Unsuk Chin’s “Alice in Wonderland” in schools.
About half of the roles in the operas for 2012-13 have been already been cast and casting details will be made public in June or July.




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